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    Default Fantastic Contraption: Physics Puzzle Game

    This is a free flash-based game that I've been wasting alot. So far, I've gotten thru 17 of the 21 puzzles. Good fun.

    If anyone comes up with any innovative designs to the harder puzzles, it might be fun to compare and see how different orgahs go about solving them.
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    Yeh, good fun. Been playing during lectures.
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    Alright I have this game figured out. The answer is ALWAYS more wheels!

    Here's something I thought was pretty interesting when I did it (Mission to Mars level):
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2632657
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    nvm
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    Alright I have this game figured out. The answer is ALWAYS more wheels!

    Here's something I thought was pretty interesting when I did it (Mission to Mars level):
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2632657
    Nice.
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    I usually play all those games on Kongregate
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    I remember playing a game similar to this one called the awesome contraption machine or something like that. Pretty fun, but iirc, it gets horrendously difficult later one
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    Been playing it last week at Kongregate

    Normally I go for the simplest approach.

    1,2,3

    Rotator

    Some are a bit more complex

    Levered

    Conveyor Belt

    Bulldozer
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    Just did Level 21 U-Turn after doing the previous post. I wanted something simpler but here it is:

    Two Triangles
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    Wow, I thought no one else knew of this great game. I have finished it 5 times and its still good fun, thought my contraptions aren't anywhere near as good.
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    I think Level 21 is fairly easy... the tube one is getting me stuck... or unstuck. I can see a brute force approach but that ain't what I want.

    Here is 21 again:
    Double Simple
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    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2662519

    Didn't turn out how i wanted... To heavy

    Ehehehe

    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2664036

    As you can tell I like treads
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    Simple Solution to the Higher Problem:

    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2665293

    A simple tread solution to the Higher Problem:
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2665293
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    I just finished mission "unpossible". I started out with this lovely trebuchet (check out how far it can fling that ball!). But when I attached a tether, it lacked the raw power to do the job. So I built the infernal machine.

    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    Some are a bit more complex

    Bulldozer
    I had a similar take on that one- I called it the TBM.

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    As you can tell I like treads
    Treads?
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    oops
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    Ok i've done em all... only one im stuck on now is the tube....

    I cant seem to figure out how to get it up...

    Can some one help me!!!!

    ohh and heres my test and fail of awash


    Heres the first part when i was still figuring out how i would by pass all that great weight

    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2709213

    Then came stabilization of my tank
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2709731

    But i noticed the circles would block up the tread so i needed a way to keep them off so heres the final beast

    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2709870

    Now does anyone else see one which can push the weight up the hill cause i haven't.
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    Default Re: Fantastic Contraption: Physics Puzzle Game

    Some other inventions of mine:
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2711857
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2712117

    Nothing fancy.

    EDIT: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2713475 It's like a tank plowing through a crowd of college protesters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Veho Nex View Post
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2709870

    Now does anyone else see one which can push the weight up the hill cause i haven't.
    I don't know if you saw my killdozer design from junkyard, but allow me to present killdozer2 -son of killdozer.

    The secret is linking the wheels so the power gets to where it's needed.

    I've now finished all the stock levels, so I've just been going back over some of them again to make more "fun" designs.
    I should prolly spring for the full version.....
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    I'm stuck on Unpossible and Back and Forth
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    I've got a new method which has brought treads to its knee's
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sooh View Post
    I wonder if I can make Csargo cry harder by doing everyone but his ISO.

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    Awesome game. Pape is a genius
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    I'm stuck on Unpossible and Back and Forth
    I'll post it if you can't get it.
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    I finally got Down Under:
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2736513

    It took me forever tinkering around with the weights and rope lengths.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    I finally got Down Under:
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2736513

    It took me forever tinkering around with the weights and rope lengths.
    Mine is a little more simplistic: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2719330

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae View Post
    Mine is a little more simplistic: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2719330
    Gah! Why didn't I think of that?
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    Does anybody have anything for tube?

    Here is what I have so far:

    Tri-Color

    Up Ramp

    See-Saw

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    I am incapable of figuring out the really hard designs at this point in time.
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    A way to get through Awash with only 6 spinners. Takes a while, but it works!

    I got through Tube, but I didn't save it. 3 spinners in a triangle with the ball in the middle. Triangles are your friend here, you can walk up the walls like people do with their hands. You can stop up the bottom of the hole with a wood triangle, there is a little bit of a ledge.

    Edit-> here's a second take, not quite what i did first.
    http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2763442
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